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New Forest East

New Forest East
County constituency
for the House of Commons
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Boundary of New Forest East in Hampshire.
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Location of Hampshire within England.
County Hampshire
Electorate 73,542 (December 2010)
Current constituency
Created 1997
Member of parliament Julian Murray Lewis (Conservative)
Number of members One
Created from Romsey and Waterside, New Forest
Overlaps
European Parliament constituency South East England

Coordinates: 50°49′12″N 1°28′01″W / 50.820°N 1.467°W / 50.820; -1.467

New Forest East is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by Julian Murray Lewis, a Conservative.

The constituency covers the eastern half of the New Forest in Hampshire, including the central forest villages of Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst and Beaulieu, as well as the waterside settlements (Totton, Marchwood, Hythe and Fawley).

For all areas the relevant local authority has a higher than average proportion of retired people, and a lower than national average extent of social housing and rented housing. Housing types include far above average detached and semi-detached properties.


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